WWEek: “Smackdown Is My Show”

Raw started with an Orton promo where he offered Batista a spot in The Legacy. Since the Orton – Batista match was made already a couple of weeks ago we all knew the answer. But I really didn’t like Batista trying to do corny Cena-jokes, which Cena can barely pull off. And then the fake Batista laugh, it’s almost as bad if not worse then “woo woo woo woo”…. But things lead to Batista vs Priceless in a Handicap match which Priceless won because Batista was DQed for holding(???) a chair. Don’t you have to hit someone first with a chair to be DQed? Or if not do it like Eddie Guerrero did and play like if you were hit to get someone DQed.

Anyway Priceless winning ment that the Main Event would be Legacy vs Batista. Only to see that during the show Batista took out Rhodes and Dibiase, so Orton had to face Batista alone. But when Batista try to shatter Ortons ankle Priceless was able to make their way to the ring to save Orton. So they couldn’t be there 5 minutes earlier???? Anyway Orton made his way out of the ring and Batista ran wild yet again. Batistabomb on Rhodes and a Spear to Dibiase and to finish it off he threw the ringstairs at Orton who ducked out of the way.

That I didn’t really like it was mostly because of Batista still standing after a 3 on 1 stituation, only good thing coming out of this is probably that Orton will win at Judgement Day.

Also on Raw was a rematch from last week between Carlito and The Brian Kendrick. This time The Brian Kendrick beat Carlito. After that he went on the mic claiming he would find The Partner and would challenge for The Tagteamtitles. So any chance it will be Mr Kennedy……..wait for it……Kennedy? The Raw show on 31th may is in Greenbay. Offcourse it could be someone else, I just hope it doesn’t turn out to be The Miz. Since he has been tagging for a long time with Morrison until the Draft.

Talking about The Miz, he’s 3-0 now against Cena (or so he claims to be). Also a good promo again by The Miz. “What is it Cena are you Hurt? Lucky for you this is an exhibition match, not 12 rounds”.

There was a pretty good MVP lounge segment, especially the beginning with Regal and MVP. Matt Hardy came out and started whining again. Kofi was out next attacking Matt from behind… Not very Face-like behavior… But before the MVP Lounge was destroyed Chavo came out with an announcement from Vicky that they would fight in a Tag team match. Which turned out to be a decent tagteammatch with MVP and Kofi teaming against Matt Hardy and Regal. Nothing special, but still enjoyable to me.

Stuff I didn’t mention and didn’t care much for were the Santina segment (I’m a lesbiano or something), the Santina vs Beth match, also another Diva’s tagmatch Kelly Kelly and Micky James vs Maryse and Jillian (lucky for us no singing this week). All in all it wasn’t a great show, but it also wasn’t unwatchable as some claimed it to be.

The Show started with a Mark Henry match, this time Tommy Dreamer was the victim of the Worlds Strongest Slam. This match didn’t do much for me mainly because Mark Henry was in it, sure he’s strong but not the best wrestler on ECW.

One of the things I really like about ECW is not only the new influx of superstars (from developmental) which keeps the show fresh, also the commentary from Matt Striker. He makes brilliant references and at ECW this Tuesday he mentioned the match between Santina and Beth: “Santina got the win on Raw with a ‘small package’.” That made me laugh more than the whole Santina segment on Raw.

Next up was Finlay vs Tyson Kidd, a good match that went back and forward. And just when Finlay was about to put Kidd away with the Celtic Cross, DH Smith debuted at ECW kicking Finlay in the face. After DH Smith was done stomping on Finlay, DH Smith and Tyson Kidd did a Hart Attack (The doubleteammove from Bret Hart and Jim ‘The Anvil” Neidhart) on Finlay. Natalya joined the duo in the ring and thus The Hart Foundation V2.0 was formed. (Although they didn’t officially called it so.)

Whooptiedoo, and yet another week we get a Kozlov video followed by a match against a jobber and this time to top it of an interview… Just before the video we saw Paul Burchill complaining to Tiffany about not being on the show, but there’s room for a no-name jobber? Sure it’s smart booking as it doesn’t destroy the reputation of WWE’s own talent by losing to Kozlov.

At the end of ECW we got the Peepshow with Christian and Swagger. Christian is good on the mic, so no complaints about that. But this segment didn’t really do much for their PPV-match, other than Swagger claiming that Christian cheated and Christian pointing out the fact that Swagger was doing the same thing only that he was outsmarted. Overall it was a decent show.

The First match was Rey Mysterio vs Shelton Benjamin. It was a good enjoyable match, because it was a somewhat quicker paced match. Too bad that Rey ended up a bit injured, but according to several reports online he’s still scheduled to compete at Judgment Day. John Morrison sat in on commentary during this match and I have to say that he improved since the time he was on commentary on ECW with Carlito. After the match Rey won (619, followed by a splash), Shelton and Morrison had a staredown with Shelton trying to punch Morrison. Morrison blocked and punched Shelton instead.

After a great opening match we got Mark Henry vs Christian. Even Christian couldn’t get a decent match out of Henry. Most of the match saw Henry in control, lumbering around the ring. In the end Christian got the win, but the way it happened was not really convincing: Henry sitting down and Christian doing a crossbody from the second rope getting the 3 count. So normally this would be disappointing, but knowing Henry was in the match my expectations weren’t to high. All in all I was happy to see the match end.

So the Main event was Big Show vs Hornswoggle. It shouldn’t be a surprise to see some interference. At first Big Show was taunting Hornswoggle and even lay down to let him hit the Tadpole Splash (which Big Show avoided by rolling away). Just when Big Show was about to use the Knockout Punch, someone interfered on behalf of Hornswoggle. Which was expected, the thing I didn’t expect was that someone being Golddust. Should have made more sense if it were Finlay (the ‘father’) or Cena (Big Shows Judgment Day opponent). So unless the WWE is forming some sort of alliance between Golddust and Hornswoggle, it didn’t make any sense….

The first match was John Morrison & CM Punk vs WGTT and it was pretty good. The only thing that kept going through my mind was the pairing of Morrison en Punk. Not only did they beat each other for the ECW Title and the Tagteam Titles, but they were both in the MITB match not even two months ago. So it seemed a little quick for my taste. Anyway it was good to see CM (custom muscle) Haas again in a more serious role than the one he previously had on RAW.

Next was Ricky Ortiz’s debut in a match against Jeff Hardy. A quick match with a lot of offence from Ortiz followed by a whisper in the wind, twist of fate and a swanton bomb gave Hardy the win. Is it just me or is Hardy’s face paint getting weirder every week? At first I thought the ‘Joker’-esk face paint worked for his character and helped his promo’s but now it’s become weird.

The rematch between R-Truth and Mike Knox happened too. And with J.R. and Grisham putting over Mike Knox big time didn’t convince me to care about this match. R-Truth won with his springboard corkscrew elbow, which was like seeing Jeff Hardy win a match after hitting the whisper in the wind…

What’s up with the announce teams in the ring promoting the PPV? I thought it was strange on RAW, but now again on Smackdown…. What’s the difference with the usual sum up of the PPV?

Great promo’s by Edge and Jericho (about Smackdown is their show) lead to Teddy Long making a match between the two. Egomania was the main event for this show. The mic-work and the match made Edge look a bit face-ish. It was a great match going back and forth ending in a DQ because Jericho brought a chair to the ring. After this it became a clusterf*ck. Jeff Hardy came out and laid out Edge. When he was about to do a swanton Jericho came to the aid of Edge (WTH????). Hardy takes out Jericho (and himself). Enter CM Punk with the briefcase and the ref, with Umaga on his heels. Punk/Umaga and Edge/Hardy were fighting in the crowd, Jericho walked back to the entrance looked back and Rey Mysterio appeared to attack Jericho from behind (again…). I’m used to like and care about Rey, but now with him attacking from behind and playing the snitch (last week) I’m beginning to dislike him….

Also on Smackdown this week a diva’s tag match (what a surprise) between Melina & Gail Kim vs McCool & A(licia) Fox, a Dolph Ziggler vs Jimmy Wang Yang match which Ziggler won. After the match the Great Khali came out threw Ziggler out of the ring, causing Ziggler to retreat to the back. Followed by a backstage catfight between Eve and Layla in a ‘I don’t give a damn’- segment….

That’s my WWEek for you, Judgment Day will be covered on the next edition.